We explore “10 things” that range from the menu of materials available to engineers in their profession to the many mechanical and electrical properties of materials important to their use in various engineering fields. We also discuss the principles behind the manufacturing of those materials.
By the end of the course, you will be able to:
* Recognize the important aspects of the materials used in modern engineering applications,
* Explain the underlying principle of materials science: “structure leads to properties,”
* Identify the role of thermally activated processes in many of these important “things” – as illustrated by the Arrhenius relationship.
* Relate each of these topics to issues that have arisen (or potentially could arise) in your life and work.
If you would like to explore the topic in more depth you may purchase Dr. Shackelford's Textbook:
J.F. Shackelford, Introduction to Materials Science for Engineers, Eighth Edition, Pearson Prentice-Hall, Upper
Saddle River, NJ, 2015

Welcome to week 1! In lesson one, you will learn to recognize the six categories of engineering materials through examples from everyday life, and we’ll discuss how the structure of those materials leads to their properties. Lesson two explores how point defects explain solid state diffusion. We will illustrate crystallography – the atomic-scale arrangement of atoms that we can see with the electron microscope. We will also describe the Arrhenius Relationship, and apply it to the number of vacancies in a crystal. We’ll finish by discussing how point defects facilitate solid state diffusion, and applying the Arrhenius Relationship to solid state diffusion.

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James Shackelford

Distinguished Professor Emeritus

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Welcome to Ten Things Every Engineer Should Now About Materials Science from UC Davis Extension. [MUSIC] My name is Dr. James Shackelford and I will be your instructor for this course. I am currently a distinguished professor emeritus at the University of California Davies. After having taught for many years in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Material Science. In my four decades of teaching material science at UC Davies, I've learned that there's some key principles that are crucial to the careers of engineers in all disciplines. As well as to affiliated professions such as scientists, sales engineers, and engineering mangers. These key principles are the ten things that will be presented in this course. I've authored this widely used textbook, Introduction to Materials Science for Engineers, published by Pearson, which is now in its eighth edition. This is the associated textbook that you'll hear me refer to at times during the course. Although this textbook is not required for the course, it can be helpful for further exploration of these topics. And it serves as a companion text for the full, three credit course from UC Davis Extension, entitled Introduction to Materials Engineering. So to seeking a deeper understanding of the material science field, you can find that course on the UC Davis extension website. Now this ten things course consist of some of those video lectures from the full course, as well as various on location segments. What we'll see how the properties of engineering materials help you to find their use in real world situations. We're going to spend some time in the kitchen in order to understand the menus of materials available to engineers. And we'll also come to this electron microscope laboratory to help us understand solid state diffusion. We'll be spending considerable time here in the materials science teaching laboratories learning about a wide range of mechanical properties, and how we make things fast and slow. We'll be in a boiler room to talk about high temperature or creep deformation. We'll in a parking lot to talk about the fatigue of materials. And then, we'll be in a clean room talking about the role of semiconductor materials in the modern electronics industry. So thank you for joining us in this course. I hope you enjoy it as much as I've enjoyed creating it. And I also hope that it is truly beneficial to you and your career. [MUSIC]